diff --git a/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/Manifest b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/Manifest
index 0b36b20c74ae3..09230815dca63 100644
--- a/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST glib-2.70.4.tar.xz 4824296 BLAKE2B 10e472672bfa20cadad01a9c22d01f2363c3033a234f4abe939c30a86e22621ffe9f8bec8031f43b18cc8c07a1ddfa05631979641d8dab88ae7b42345b2a3cde SHA512 e0fa19ef7c2ee48d94fb15074e4e58ecd23b288cfa7bb92ca72d3e337dade80c675595f05b26c10d351a0167f6b273656aef3686d44708121a8861b16b7635c0
+DIST glib-2.72.0.tar.xz 4879172 BLAKE2B 0bff92ac749ff2f39bffb0583e00f3556e04d5fcbcf9fa81fe91f6aa9771490c1732ac451bd685dca18e73bffa10c20ad418f1253ba0d0cc8b01c471cf429eee SHA512 351ff025d26348112584bed2c1052427150a8a2f8642c813dae1583fb105184528ad20e264cdf44bbca658a26c280e36acd0e642add112d29edc1b25dfc94fad
diff --git a/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.72.0.ebuild b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.72.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..672168a9fccec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen-2.72.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+GNOME_ORG_MODULE="glib"
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+PYTHON_REQ_USE="xml"
+DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_SETUPTOOLS=no
+
+inherit gnome.org distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="GDBus code and documentation generator"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.gtk.org/"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos"
+
+RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libxslt
+	app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
+"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}/gio/gdbus-2.0/codegen"
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	PATCHES=(
+		"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.56.1-sitedir.patch"
+	)
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+
+	local MAJOR_VERSION=$(ver_cut 1)
+	local MINOR_VERSION=$(ver_cut 2)
+	sed -e 's:@PYTHON@:python:' gdbus-codegen.in > gdbus-codegen || die
+	sed -e "s:@VERSION@:${PV}:" \
+		-e "s:@MAJOR_VERSION@:${MAJOR_VERSION}:" \
+		-e "s:@MINOR_VERSION@:${MINOR_VERSION}:" config.py.in > config.py || die
+	cp "${FILESDIR}/setup.py-2.32.4" setup.py || die "cp failed"
+	sed -e "s/@PV@/${PV}/" -i setup.py || die "sed setup.py failed"
+}
+
+do_xsltproc_command() {
+	# Taken from meson.build for manual manpage building - keep in sync (also copied to dev-util/glib-utils)
+	xsltproc \
+		--nonet \
+		--stringparam man.output.quietly 1 \
+		--stringparam funcsynopsis.style ansi \
+		--stringparam man.th.extra1.suppress 1 \
+		--stringparam man.authors.section.enabled 0 \
+		--stringparam man.copyright.section.enabled 0 \
+		-o "${2}" \
+		http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl \
+		"${1}" || die "manpage generation failed"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	distutils-r1_src_compile
+	do_xsltproc_command "${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}/docs/reference/gio/gdbus-codegen.xml" "${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}/docs/reference/gio/gdbus-codegen.1"
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	einfo "Skipping tests. This package is tested by dev-libs/glib"
+	einfo "when merged with FEATURES=test"
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all # no-op, but prevents QA warning
+	doman "${WORKDIR}/glib-${PV}/docs/reference/gio/gdbus-codegen.1"
+}